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serious the preceding year. Almost every farm of 100 

 acres had from five to twenty acres of apple orchard kept 

 in permanent pasture, yet but little fruit could survive 

 the combined attacks of the Codlin Moth, the Canker- 

 worm, the Curculio, &c., &c., unless stock was kept in 

 the orchards to feed the grass closely and pick up the 

 fallen fruit." The excellent plan adopted by careful 

 growers of picking up all fallen fruit, and either using it 

 as food for stock or destroying it, is one which cannot be 

 too highly recommended, knowing as we do that a large 

 percentage of fruit which has fallen through the attacks 

 of grubs, contains grubs in some form or other, and is, 

 as a rule, quite unfit for human consumption. 



It is to be hoped that should this pest make its 

 appearance in Victorian orchards, growers will at once 

 acquaint the Entomologist of the fact so that he may be 

 able, by his advice and assistance, to help in its destruction 

 and eradication. 



A word of caution must here be given, as, when advising 

 that fallen fruit which had been attacked by grubs be 

 given to stock, it is, of course, to be understood that fruit 

 of any kind which has been recently sprayed with any 

 poisonous compound as Paris green, London purple, &c., 

 must in all cases be excepted, as this should at once be 

 raked up and destroyed by burning. 



